Square's new RMT solution. Will it work?

[Rizon]

Come on people this is eye candy for the masses. RMT have never been reliant on friends request as an integral part of their strategy. It was always just an assist employed by a few. Their main weapon, /tell spams, continues on unchecked and ignored by SE. Until SE addresses this in a meaningful way the problem will persist at its current levels. Considering SE's Laissez-faire approach to the problem in the past I do not expect any substantive action in the future.

[Zumi]

I solved the tell problem. All they have to do is add a button where you right click report button. If the same person is reported by 5 different people they get their tells muted until a GM investigates them.

[SlackiePie]

Some really great ideas on this thread. I hope this gets noticed =D

[Rizon]

Some really great ideas on this thread. I hope this gets noticed =D

There has been a similar thread on the forums since March. These ideas plus many more were broached there......and ignored by SE there.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-RMT-situation.

[NinjaDante]

Any attempt to combat RMT that inhibits normal players is poorly conceived and detrimental to the game. For example the fact that you can't friend your own alts, or this limit on friend requests, SE needs to put the power to deal with RMT in player's hands rather than just limit what everyone can do. I'd rather get more gilseller tells than have what i can do be limited

[Welsper59]

Any attempt to combat RMT that inhibits normal players is poorly conceived and detrimental to the game. For example the fact that you can't friend your own alts, or this limit on friend requests, SE needs to put the power to deal with RMT in player's hands rather than just limit what everyone can do. I'd rather get more gilseller tells than have what i can do be limited

Limitations to normal people because of disruptive crowds is a normal thing that everyone everywhere has in place, be it IRL or in-game. It's why we have currency, it's why we have virus scans, it's why we have laws, etc. In a perfect world, relying on players to police themselves in this day and age would be great... but reality would show itself immediately. I swear, I wouldn't even trust a single random person on this game with holding 1 gil. I really don't see the big deal on the 5 friend request daily limit too, given that unless you FR 6+ people every single day, you're probably going to live through this. Worst case, they could befriend you instead. Besides, if that were the case, your Friend's List must already be full.

Having said this however, I'm still very much in the mind that this was a pointless limitation to make and simply affects legit players more than the intended target. As I said in a different thread, this change is one based on the idea of being inconvenienced enough to stop or slow an action. RMT operate almost exclusively on bots to do their farming and advertising. They do not stop doing what they're programmed to do. Bots do not feel inconvenienced.

[Naruil]

In a 5 month span I have gotten 1 friend request from a RTM and that was last week. It's the tells that are are my biggest problem. Every day I get a tell evry 5-20 minutes. My black list is full and nun seem to be banded. Dear me if I clear it out my black list for the ones I'm getting recently, the ones I removed off it probably start sending me more tells again. -.-

[StriderShinryu]

I believe that, yes, the friend req limit will help to curb the RMT activity. But it will only do this for friend req related RMT activity when the larger and more consistent issue seems to be with /tells. In fact, I'd wager that with the enforcement of /tell activity being as lax as it is all we're going to see is the RMT sellers who do use friend reqs just switching to /tell, which will at best just shift the problem if not make things even worse.

[Zeonx]

No they will delete the character then invite again.

[TouchandFeel]

The answer to that question is a firm and decisive maybe.